This is looking really good so far I cant wait to see a mock up with everything inside before you totally finish. seeing it finished will be much better of course but even a mock up will be super awesome.

This is looking really good so far I cant wait to see a mock up with everything inside before you totally finish. seeing it finished will be much better of course but even a mock up will be super awesome.
Keep up the good work mate

I think I can do that today after I get the second hole all filed down.

So today I did some cutting of stuff that needed to be cut! Very specific huh? Well I had to do some minor cuts to the PSU, the top shelf, and the back panel. I also tried to finish up the top of the case where the radiator goes but ran into some BIG problems that will require me to get another case because I messed up badly... Luckily, the case it built into two pieces (the inner case). So if I got a new case, I would just need the top and front half of the inner case. Now to play the waiting game of finding a case...

Anyways, on to pictures!

So first thing I had to do today was cut the standoffs from the PSU case since I need to eventually put my power supply down there.

You can see the old standoffs I'm talking about in the picture.

Action shot of cutting!

Here they are all cut off and then the PSU enclosure cleaned out.

The next thing on the list was to cut the top self so it would fit. You can see in the next picture how it doesn't fit at all...

Taped up inside the case ready to go...

Lines drawn and ready for cutting!

So I started out using the dremel cutting disk and it quickly ground down to nothing so when I tried to replace the disk, the little screw holding the disk down broke. My anger quickly subsided when I realized that I had bought some special metal cutting blades for our jigsaw! I should have used that thing in the first place! It's cut through the shelf like BUTTER!

The next thing I had to do was cut the back panel of the case so it could fit over the latch. All taped up and ready to go.

Line drawn and ready to cut!

Clamped down...

And tah dah! All cut!

I rounded down the corners and attached it to the back of the case.

So my original plan was to have the fan filters fit flush with the top of the case. Since I live in the US, they don't have 120MM hole cutters so I had to use the closet size to that which was 4 1/2". This meant I had to file down the holes some more and make them bigger. Well, since I had to do that, I messed up aligning the holes or something and from that point, everything went south...

Here are pictures of the failed attempt...

I also tried to countersink the screws but idk what was wrong but it didn't give me a nice round circle, it ended up looking like a hexagon....

Oh well... so that's why I need a new case to work with. Next time, I'm going to make a template and attach it to the case BEFORE I do any cutting. I'm also going to BUY a hole cutter the correct size of the filter so I don't have any issues with it being flush. That all said, it will take me awhile...

Anyways, I had a request that I put some stuff in the case for a mock up. Well I did that! and discovered some problems...

I have NO room for fans... I will have to move the optical drive down below the shelf where I was going to put an Aquero. So why not just switch the two?? GENIUS! So that's what I'm going to do. The Aquero will be going on the top shelf and the optical drive will be going below. I'll probably buy a slim optical drive as well.

The hole problem will go away if you mount the silverstone fan grill outside the case and coutersink them. it will turn out well since you plan on painting the case black wither ways.

I want the filters flush with the case. I got one of them to be flush and it looks really professional.

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Originally Posted by Citra

This^ , but I don't think it'll look that nice. If you lived closer I'd sell you one of my cases, I regret buying 2 lol...
Also, are you using fiber reinforced cutting discs?
Sucks that happened though. :/

Where in Canada do you live? I'm in Washington State. And yes, the disks are reinforced. I liked the cuts I was getting with the jigsaw though.

Hey Citra where did you get those rubber u-channels? I got mine via e-bay but they're a a lot smaller and thinner than the ones on your case. They look like the ones used on cars.

@Jeffinslaw: Last resort is to use the u-channels like Citra said...I personally would not cut circles, I would cut something like this, outlined with the red lines as it makes the work faster, easier and there will me more air-flow:

I would also suggest not to put mesh on the fan as they will produce noise, just leave it open, but if you're using them for intakes a plastic filter will do, but that's just me.